China and International Law

STATE RESPONSIBILITY An FM spokesman said the Libyan new government "is ready to compensate Chinese companies for their losses " during the country's unrest. China earlier said it had suffered ...

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LAW OF THE SEA The Defense Ministry announced that the PLA navy will conduct "an annual, planned, routine drill" in the international waters in the western Pacific. It said that ""China's free...

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HONG KONG HUMAN RIGHTS - TORTURE EXTRADITION The alleged Libyan victim of the 2004 rendition to Libya via Hong Kong Sami al-Saadi lodged a complaint with London's Metropolitan Police and...

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TERRITORY - SOUTH CHINA SEA Premier Wen Jiabo said the long-standing disputes over the South China Sea "should be settled through friendly consultation and negotiation between the sovereign sta...

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TRADE FINANCE Amid reports that the WTO would examine whether international trade rules cover efforts by governments to manipulate the value of their currencies, a Chinese trade official voi...

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TERRITORY - SOUTH CHINA SEA All of a sudden, everybody is fired up with the South China Sea. Taiwan's security chief said Taiwan should upgrade her defence capabilities at her 130-strong garris...

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JURISDICTION Chinese police officers went to Angola and, with the cooperation by Angolan authorities, arrested 11 Chinese criminal suspects that engaged in abducting Chinese women to Angola for...

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INTERNATIONAL RIVERS JURISDICTION in the wake of the killing of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River at the "Golden Triangle" area, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos meet, Chin...

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LAW OF THE SEA A Chinese fishing boat entered into waters near the Goto islands off Nagasaki in southwestern Japan, which is Japan's territorial sea not under any dispute. The skipper was arrest...

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TERRORISM Chinese legislature adopted a legal definition of terrorism in a Decision on Certain Questions on Strengthening the Anti-Terrorism Work . According to the new legislation, terrorism i...

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UNITED NATIONS China paid off her 2011 dues to the UN in the amount of $84.46m, or 3.189% of the total UN dues, making China the 8th largest contributor to the UN.

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TAIWAN Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Taiwan aims to sign a peace agreement with the mainland within 10 years , provided there is a high level of consensus on the island and sufficient tr...

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LAW OF THE SEA - SOUTH CHINA SEA In the wake of the Sino-Vietnamese agreement on the South China Sea, India tried to get involved through its state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp which will work ...

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TERRITORY - SOUTH CHINA SEA LAW OF THE SEA - SOUTH CHINA SEA Following reports by WikiLeaks of Chinese protests against international oil firms signing exploration deals with Vietnam in the di...

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DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS HONG KONG Responding to China's criticism that the US consulate in Hong Kong contravened the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by interfering in the city's constituti...

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UNITED NATIONS In a clear retort to the abuse of UN authorisation by the Western countries in Libya, China joined Russia in a rare double veto of a draft Security Council resolution threatenin...

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INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT Given the controverted impact on the local environment and community of the Myitsome Dam on the Irrawady River in northern Myanmar, it was probably unwise to dub it Chi...

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JURISDICTION EXTRADITION The Supreme Court of Queensland in Australia sentenced Li Kai Cheung, a fugitive Chinese official who is an Australian permanent resident, to 14 years in jail for money...

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TERRITORY - LAND BOUNDARY China and Tajikistan completed the demarcation of the land boundary between them. 1158 square kilometres of territory that used to be under the control of Tajikistan w...

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RECOGNITION Succession China accorded recognition to the rebel National Transitional Council as Libya's "ruling authorities and representative of the Libyan people".""We hope that the various ...

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HONG KONG HUMAN RIGHTS - TORTURE EXTRADITION The overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya seems to be causing some unexpected troubles for Hong Kong , as CIA documents discovered in the abandon...

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TERRITORY - SOUTH CHINA SEA TAIWAN Taiwan began to install a solar power system on the Taipei Islet , the largest of the Spratly Islands, as a way of upholding Taiwan's claim over the Spratlys.

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LAW OF THE SEA - SOUTH CHINA SEA A Chinese warship confronted an Indian navy vessel shortly after it left Vietnamese waters in the South China Sea, asking it to identify itself and explain its ...

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NON-INTERVENTION United Nations China came dangerously close to committing what she always condemned as the cardinal sin in international relations -- interference in another country's internal...

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RECOGNITION The head of Libya's National Transitional Council said China is obstructing Libya's frozen assets because China is bargaining hard to protect her interests in Libya.A Chinese FM spo...

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